Rural Areas Western United States

Decades of racial isolation are ending in the rural West, where growing numbers of black professionals are staking out new lives far from the tensions that have come to characterize many of the nation's cities. What they find for the most part in this open, sparsely populated land is that prejudice, when it does exist, is based on ignorance, not hatred.

Decades of racial isolation are ending in the rural West, where growing numbers of black professionals are staking out new lives far from the tensions that have come to characterize many of the nation's cities. What they find for the most part in this open, sparsely populated land is that prejudice, when it does exist, is based on ignorance, not hatred.